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Base editing repairs an SGCA mutation in human primary muscle stem cells.
JCI insight - 24 May 2021
Escobar Helena, Krause Anne, Keiper Sandra, Kieshauer Janine, Müthel Stefanie, de Paredes Manuel García, Metzler Eric, Kühn Ralf, Heyd Florian, Spuler Simone
Abstract excerpt
Skeletal muscle can regenerate from muscle stem cells and their myogenic precursor cell progeny, myoblasts. However, precise gene editing in human muscle stem cells for autologous cell replacement therapies of untreatable genetic muscle diseases has not yet been reported. Loss-of-function mutations in SGCA, encoding α-sarcoglycan, cause limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2D/R3, an early-onset, severe, and rapidly...
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